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#1

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

#2

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

tags: music

720 likes

#3

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

152109 likes

#4

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
― Frank Zappa

533 likes

#5

“Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
― Frank Zappa

tags: hair, humor, retort

631 likes

#6

“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

400 likes

#7

“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: communism

301 likes

#8

“Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?”
― Frank Zappa

tags: religion

260 likes

#9

“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: beer

202 likes

#10

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
― Frank Zappa

466 likes

#11

“I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: beauty, ugly

264 likes

#12

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: children, religion

393 likes

#13

“Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.”
― Frank Zappa

173 likes

#14

“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: government-humor

249 likes

#15

“A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.”
― Frank Zappa

118 likes

#16

“I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: comedy, media, society

141 likes

#17

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7236 likes

#18

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

tags: music

4210 likes

#19

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

tags: technology

288 likes

#20

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

tags: change

1285 likes

#21

“Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: life

65 likes

#22

“Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.”
― Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations

54 likes

#23

“Liberties aren't given, they are taken.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: freedom

169 likes

#24

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means

tags: democracy, power, society, tyranny, war

99 likes

#25

“There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.”
― Aldous Huxley

125 likes

#26

“That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
― Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies

tags: equality, sanity

420 likes

#27

“I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world. ”
― Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations

49 likes

#28

“For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. I: 1920-1925

tags: dogmatism, stupidity

78 likes

#29

“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

tags: consumerism

288 likes

#30

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: infinity, perception

1911 likes

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